Washington Post hires WSJ’s Passariello as tech editor

Washington Post financial editor David Cho and deputy business editor Zach Goldfarb sent out the following announcement on Thursday:

We are thrilled to announce that Christina Passariello, the Wall Street Journal’s deputy technology editor, will join The Washington Post as its new technology editor.

Christina will oversee a critical and expanding area of coverage for The Post, running a talented team of reporters in Washington, New York and San Francisco. A keen and strategic thinker, she brings deep knowledge of how the tech industry works and a highly creative approach to storytelling.

Christina has worked for the Journal for nearly 14 years, most recently in its San Francisco bureau. She helped oversee some of the biggest technology stories of the year, including Russia’s alleged use of U.S. social media platforms before and after the 2016 election, Amazon’s aggressive expansion into new arenas and Google’s high-profile lawsuit against Uber for the alleged theft of trade secrets.

She also served as a foreign correspondent in Paris and was part of the team that won the 2013 Sigma Delta Chi award for reporting on Bangladesh’s garment industry. She was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford from 2014 to 2015.

In the early 1990s, Christina performed as a dancer at the Super Bowl halftime show, which starred Michael Jackson, and at Whitney Houston’s halftime performance during the World Cup.

Christina lives in Palo Alto with her two boys and will be based in San Francisco. Please welcome her when she arrives in the newsroom on Jan. 16.